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AIDS kebabs: The Liuzhou Laowai receives a strange warning about kebabs that give you AIDS, from China Mobile.

SchizoOlympics: From Mutant Palm: news about Tibet on microblogging services like Twitter and its Chinese clones, and the SchizOlympics.

China Daily: Dalai-backed violence scars Lhasa: The China Daily reports:

The outbreak of violence died down in Lhasa Friday night, after a tumultuous day that saw windows smashed, shops robbed, mosque burnt down and reportedly many casualties.

Witnesses said the unrest started around 1:10 pm on Friday, several people clashed with and stoned the local police around the Ramogia Monastery in downtown Lhasa.

You might want to check some other sources for more information.

Lhasa in flames: From Lindsay Beck and Benjamin Kang Lim of Reuters:

Shops were set on fire in violence in Tibet's capital of Lhasa on Friday, China's Xinhua news agency reported after days of rare street protests in the contested region.

Witnesses said a number of shops were burnt, the report said.

Sexy Photogate: banking version: From ESWN:

Early yesterday morning, a two-minute-long video clip began to be circulated on the Internet. The clip is divided into three segments. The first clip was taken inside a Heng Seng bank branch office with female workers dressed in uniforms. This served to identify the principal female character as a worker there. The second clip was taken in a hourly-rate motel room, in which the principal female character appeared in a nurse's uniform. The third clip was an act of sexual intercourse in a bedroom.

Air cheap bastards: Chris Waugh at the bezdomny ex patria blog examines one flight attendant's complaint against Air New Zealand:

So far their response is, "Well, our contract is with Fasco who hires the staff according to Chinese terms." That is pathetic.

And at least one of the attendants was a New Zealand resident hired from New Zealand under the impression she would be working for Air New Zealand but suddenly found herself signing a contract with this Fasco outfit earning a mere fraction of what her Kiwi colleagues got.

Models, delegates, and the latest spin on PX: Jonathan Ansfield reports on some interesting treats for the press at this year's legislative sessions:

Fujian officials have been caught in a bind: between, on the one hand, continued external pressures to allay public fears and, on the other, sources contend, internal criticism for bungling the blowback there and helping spur a rash of protests over other projects elsewhere. As such they hedged conservatively. They sounded shifty and abrasive. They made it seem only natural and self-evident that while the project was sound, its present location in Xiamen no longer was. They soft-pedaled on the media and popular dissent that forced them to adopt that posture and skipped entirely over the misguided planning in the area that played into the controversy to start. And most ominously, they defended the Gulei site in practically the same passive-aggressive manner they once had Xiamen.

Parliament hears corporate pain: At Newsweek's Why It Matters blog, Mary Hennock reviews how the heads of major companies are expressing their dissatisfaction with the new labor law at this year's CPPCC and NPC sessions:

What's more, added protection means "workers are no longer acting as obedient as they were before", says the chairman of Jiangsu Huarui, a garment-maker with 8,000 staff. One reason is better protection from dismissal; another is that companies can no longer ask new hires to pay a fee that's forfeited if they leave.

Tudou out for the day: The message on Tudou's main page Friday morning read:

Potatoes:

To provide you all with better service, we are migrating and expanding Tudou's central servers.

Our service will be suspended from 0:00 to 24:00 on 14 March.

At 0:00 on 15 March, our migration will be complete and Tudou will promptly return home.

There's no mention of the rumored SARFT inquiry, but you wouldn't really expect that, would you? Service resumed promptly at midnight.